Theoretical Frameworks REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

24 Literature, Teaching Literature, Mastering English Literature, A Glossary of Literary Terms, and The Race Question and the Negro. The writer also uses journals and latest studies; Authors, Intentions, and Literary Meaning, Intention in Intentionalism, The Fallacy of Equating Meaning With the Human Author’s Intention, Three Kinds of Intention, Egalitarianism, and Egalitarianism in Kathryn Stockett’s Novel The Help. The writer also uses online journals and references. Those sources are useful in completing the writer‘s knowledge throughout analysis progress. There are several steps that the writer conducts in order to analyze the matter of subject. First, the writer reads the novel several times to master the primary source. From reading the novel, the writer finds several questions to be researched. The writer formulates the problem into three questions. The problem formulation is made from the early analysis of the way Stockett depicts the character of Skeeter and people around her; the socio-historical background of the life of African-American and white American in Jackson, Mississippi and the influence of those factors to main character ‘s intentions in writing Help. In the third step, the writer finds the expert theories related to the topic of the study to be applied as theoretical frameworks. The theories are character – characterization in novel and theory of author‘s intention. To support the background knowledge, the writer also reviews the history of African American who lives in Southern America during 1960s. 25 The fourth step is focusing on deeper analysis of the main character‘s intention based on the previous theories and socio-historical background review. The writer applies the theories and background review into the data from the primary source. This step brings together the evidences found in The Help novel. The last step is to draw the conclusion based on the result of the analysis. The conclusion is presented after the problem questions answered. The writer also gives the recommendations for future researchers and suggestions to English teachers to use The Help as teaching material in Prose class.